Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data Lakes
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 4 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.13% 4.59% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.26% 26.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £420 £352 -
25th Percentile £431 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £374 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% - -
75th Percentile £519 £536 -
90th Percentile £575 £598 -
North East median daily rate £463 £475 -
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 39 38 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.05% 17.43% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £366 £345 £294
25th Percentile £422 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £415
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +11.45% -24.55%
75th Percentile £659 £576 £488
90th Percentile £750 £647 £540
North East median daily rate £475 £475 £443
% change year-on-year - +7.34% -19.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £36.00 - £46.18
% change year-on-year - - -5.76%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne -20 3 £450 +20.32% 7
Data Lake
North East

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (25.00%) dbt
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks